Pose Library
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Found 65 poses
Bird of Paradise
Bird of Paradise is an advanced standing balance pose that incorporates a bind, requiring significant hamstring, hip, and shoulder flexibility, as well as core strength and focus. It strengthens the standing leg and opens the chest.
Boat
Boat Pose is a seated posture that significantly strengthens the core (abdomen, back) and hip flexors. It improves balance, digestion, builds focus and stamina, and can help relieve stress.
Bound Extended Side Angle
Bound Extended Side Angle Pose deepens the stretch of Extended Side Angle by adding a bind behind the back. This intensely opens the shoulders and chest, stretches the hips and groins, strengthens the legs, and improves stamina.
Bow
Bow Pose is an intermediate prone backbend that deeply stretches the entire front of the body, including the chest, abdomen, hip flexors, and quadriceps, while strengthening the back muscles, improving spinal flexibility, and stimulating abdominal organs. It is an energizing pose.
Camel
Camel Pose is an intermediate deep backbend performed from a kneeling position that stretches the entire front body—hip flexors, abdomen, chest, shoulders, and throat. It improves spinal flexibility, strengthens back muscles, opens the shoulders and chest, and enhances posture.
Balancing Table
Balancing Table (Bird Dog) is a foundational core strengthening pose that improves balance, coordination, and stability. It strengthens the core, back, and glutes while teaching proper spinal alignment and opposite limb coordination.
Cat-Cow Stretch
Cat-Cow Stretch is a gentle, flowing movement between two poses that warms the spine and improves flexibility. This dynamic sequence massages the spine, relieves back tension, improves posture, and connects breath with movement. It's an essential warm-up in most yoga practices.
Chair
Chair Pose (Utkatasana, meaning fierce or powerful pose) strongly strengthens the thighs, calves, ankles, and spine, while toning the core and glutes. It builds heat, stamina, and stimulates abdominal organs.
Child's
Child's Pose is a restorative forward fold that gently relaxes the front body while stretching the back torso, hips, thighs, and ankles. It calms the brain, helps relieve stress and fatigue, and can ease back and neck pain when supported.
Chinstand
An advanced pose combining an arm balance and a deep backbend, Chinstand builds significant strength in the arms, shoulders, chest, and back, enhances balance, fully opens the front body, and provides an energizing effect.
Cobra
Cobra Pose is a foundational prone backbend strengthening the spine, stretching the chest, abdomen, and shoulders, and toning the buttocks. It helps relieve stress, opens the heart and lungs, and is often part of Sun Salutations.
Compass
Compass Pose is an advanced seated posture involving a deep hamstring stretch, shoulder opening, and twist. It requires significant flexibility in the hamstrings, hips, and shoulders, opening the side body and chest.
Crane
Crane Pose is an intermediate arm balance that builds arm, wrist, and core strength, improves balance and focus, and can open the groins slightly. It differs from Crow by having straighter arms and higher hips.
Crescent
Crescent Lunge is a standing pose that strengthens the legs, glutes, and core, while stretching the hip flexors and groins of the back leg. It improves balance, concentration, opens the chest/shoulders (with arms lifted), and builds stamina.
Crow
Crow Pose (Kakasana) is a foundational arm balance that strengthens the arms, wrists, and core, tones abdominal organs, and significantly improves balance and concentration. In Kakasana, the elbows are typically more bent and knees rest on the triceps.
Dancer's
Dancer's Pose is an elegant standing balance combining a backbend and quadriceps stretch. It enhances balance, focus, stretches shoulders, chest, thighs, and abdomen, strengthens the standing leg, and cultivates grace.
Dolphin
Dolphin Pose strengthens the shoulders, arms, and core while stretching the shoulders, hamstrings, and calves. It serves as a mild inversion, calms the brain, relieves stress, and is excellent preparation for deeper inversions like Forearm Stand and Headstand.
Downward-Facing Dog
Downward-Facing Dog is a cornerstone yoga pose offering a mild inversion, full-body stretch (especially shoulders, hamstrings, calves), and strengthening for arms and legs. It energizes the body, calms the brain, improves digestion, and relieves fatigue.
Eagle
Eagle Pose is an intermediate standing balance that involves wrapping the arms and legs, improving concentration, strengthening ankles and calves, and stretching the shoulders, upper back, and outer hips.
Eight-Angle
Eight-Angle Pose (Astavakrasana) is an advanced twisting arm balance that challenges strength, flexibility, and balance. It builds significant arm and core power, improves hip and hamstring flexibility, and offers a detoxifying spinal twist.
EPK 1
Eka Pada Koundinyasana I (often called Flying Splits or Flying Man Pose) is an advanced twisting arm balance. It demands deep core strength (especially obliques), powerful arms and shoulders, good balance, and open hamstrings.
EPK 2
Eka Pada Koundinyasana II is a highly advanced arm balance integrating a deep twist, significant core and arm strength, and balance. It is known for its detoxifying effects due to the intense twist.
Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe
Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose (version A, leg forward) is an intermediate standing balance that strengthens the legs and ankles, intensely stretches the hamstrings, and improves balance and concentration.
Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe
Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose (version B, leg out to side) is an intermediate standing balance pose that strengthens the standing leg, opens the hips, stretches hamstrings and adductors of the lifted leg, and challenges balance and focus.